Course Details

History of Architecture 2

Academic Year 2023/24

BGA020 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-APS Winter Semester 2nd year

Knowledge of the Middle Ages architecture, from the ancient Christians, over the Byzantine and Islamic architecture, the Pre-Romanesque architecture, the Old Slavonic architecture, the European and the Czech Romanesque and Gothic architecture to the most outstanding Middle Ages building complexes; development of the art of construction in relation to the social and economic background and the stage of technological development.

Credits

2 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

winter

Course Guarantor

Ing. arch. Adam Guzdek, Ph.D.

Institute

Link

Forms and criteria of assessment

graded course-unit credit

Entry Knowledge

The course connects with the history of the Antiquity, partially applying the knowledge of the building construction courses.

Aims

Knowledge of the history of architecture, the ancient Christians, the Byzantine and Islamic architecture, the Pre-Romanesque architecture, the Romanesque architecture, the Gothic in foreign countries, the Gothic in the Czech lands.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. knowledge of the history of architecture, the ancient Christians, the Byzantine and Islamic architecture, the Pre-Romanesque architecture, the Romanesque architecture, the Gothic in foreign countries, the Gothic in the Czech lands.

Basic Literature

BARTLOVÁ, Milena. Průvodce studiem dějin středověkého výtvarného umění. 3. vyd. Praha: UMPRUM, 2018. E-kniha, 347 s.
KOCH, Wilfried. Evropská architektura. Encyklopedie evropské architektury od antiky po současnost. 3. vyd. Praha: Euromedia Group – Knižní klub, 2012. 552 s. ISBN: 978-80-242-3657-5.
SYROVÝ, Bohuslav. Architektura – svědectví dob: přehled vývoje stavitelství a architektury. 3., dopl. vyd. Praha: Státní nakladatelství technické literatury, 1987.

Recommended Reading

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BARTLOVÁ, Milena. Skutečná přítomnost. Středověký obraz mezi ikonou a virtuální realitou. 1. vyd. Praha: Argo, 2012. 407 s. ISBN: 978-80-257-0542-1.
CASSON, Hugh. Dějiny architektury. Praha: Odeon, 1993. ISBN 80-207-0185-0.
RALLS, Karen. Gothic Cathedrals: A Guide to the History, Places, Art, and Symbolism. Lake Worth, Florida: Ibis Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0892541737.

Syllabus

1. Architecture of the ancient Christians of the Eastern and Western Empires
2. Byzantine architecture, the Islamic architecture
3. Pre-Romanesque architecture from 6th to 10th century in the territory of France and Germany
4. Art of construction of the Great Moravian Slavs
5. Romanesque architecture – cultural and social background, technology, space, set of architectonic elements
6. Romanesque architecture – Italy, France, Germany
7. Romanesque architecture – Bohemia and Moravia
8. Gothic architecture – cultural and social background, technology, space, set of architectonic elements
9. Gothic architecture – France, England
10. Gothic architecture – Germany, Italy
11. Gothic architecture – Bohemia and Moravia I.
12. Gothic architecture - Bohemia and Moravia II.
13. The most outstanding Middle Ages building complexes in Bohemia and foreign countries.

Prerequisites

The course connects with the history of the Antiquity, partially applying the knowledge of the building construction courses.

Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/273537

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Architecture of the ancient Christians of the Eastern and Western Empires
2. Byzantine architecture, the Islamic architecture
3. Pre-Romanesque architecture from 6th to 10th century in the territory of France and Germany
4. Art of construction of the Great Moravian Slavs
5. Romanesque architecture – cultural and social background, technology, space, set of architectonic elements
6. Romanesque architecture – Italy, France, Germany
7. Romanesque architecture – Bohemia and Moravia
8. Gothic architecture – cultural and social background, technology, space, set of architectonic elements
9. Gothic architecture – France, England
10. Gothic architecture – Germany, Italy
11. Gothic architecture – Bohemia and Moravia I.
12. Gothic architecture - Bohemia and Moravia II.
13. The most outstanding Middle Ages building complexes in Bohemia and foreign countries.